Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SOLAS NUA INC
SOLAS NUA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,358 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $500k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Solas Nua Inc does
Mission
Solas nua, new light in irish, is the only organization in the u.s. Devoted to bringing the best of contemporary irish arts to our metropolitan washington area audiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
As a multidisciplinary arts organization, we present 40 free events across washington dc and these include author readings and presentations, visual art shows, music, and more. This years activities examples include presenting ruth clinton and niamh moriarty, paul murray, kevin barry, as well as book groups and our ongoing book day, which gives out free irish literature on st patricks day.
$352,565 spent66% of program spendingCapital irish film festival ciff - 4 day festival in march, 2024 at afi in silver spring. This years festival featured 37 irish titles, including 20 shorts and 17 feature-length films. This years festival magnified the work of irish women in film by presenting the work of 14 women directors and eighteen women screenwriters.
$86,091 spent$80,472 earned by the program16% of program spendingTheater presentation of distillation. Solas nua commissioned this work through its norman houston prize, and artist luke casserly developed this unique aroma based evocation of the waning boglands in ireland. Originally premiering in the dublin theatre festival, the north american premiere occurred with solas nua in washington dc and then toured the east coast across multiple venues.
$71,784 spent$31,805 earned by the program13% of program spendingSolas nua presented at studio theatre, a theater presentation of panti bliss, a drag icon of equal rights activism in ireland.
$22,118 spent$16,506 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $532,558.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $104k to $173k (+66%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 15% · 2020 54% · 2021 22% · 2022 57% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SOLAS NUA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kate Meenan-Waugh
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $20k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOLAS NUA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SOLAS NUA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOLAS NUA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 46% · 2022 43% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of SOLAS NUA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of SOLAS NUA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SOLAS NUA INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SOLAS NUA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOLAS NUA INC?
- SOLAS NUA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,358 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOLAS NUA INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $230,358 in grants to SOLAS NUA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLAS NUA INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLAS NUA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing